Do Biden and Harris Support Abortion ‘Up to the Moment of Birth’?

The caption of a viral Facebook post from Women Speak Out PAC claims that “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris support abortion on demand, up to the moment of birth, even at 9 months, all at taxpayer expense. Biden and Harris are pro-abortion fanatics.”

While Joe Biden does support abortion rights and federal funding for abortion, this post is misleading and missing context.

As a senator, Biden supported the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the use of federal funding for abortions except to save a mother’s life or in cases of rape or incest. However, he reversed his stance in June 2019 during the Democratic primary.

During her own presidential campaign, Kamala Harris co-sponsored a bill in the Senate to repeal the Hyde Amendment, known as the EACH Woman Act of 2019. Harris also confronted Biden for his previous support of the amendment at the Democratic presidential primary debate in July 2019.

“Vice President, where you made a decision for years to withhold resources to poor women to have access to reproductive health care and including women who were the victims of rape and incest,” Harris said.